As an employer, you have a legal duty to protect workers' health, safety and welfare. Ensure you know how to manage drug and alcohol misuse at work.
Understanding the signs of drug and alcohol misuse (or abuse) will help you manage health and safety risk in your workplace.
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A plant hire company was fined £433,550 following an HSE investigation into the fatal incident.
The worker was returning the forklift truck to a customer’s site following repair work to its transmission.
As he reversed the vehicle onto the trailer, it fell from the side of the trailer bed. The worker was thrown from the seat and became trapped between the chassis of the forklift and a neighbouring trailer, sustaining fatal injuries.
HSE's investigation found that:
- the forklift had not been subject to a full inspection to ensure it was safe to operate
- many of the company’s workers rarely wore seatbelts when operating forklift trucks
- there was no system in place for monitoring and enforcing seatbelt use on site
Read more about the incident in our press release: £433,550 fine issued after worker killed in forklift truck incident.
Relevant guidance can be found on HSE's website: Managing lift trucks.
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Serious and potentially fatal risks are posed by rough sleepers who seek shelter in large commercial or communal waste bins and may be inadvertently tipped into waste-collection trucks.
Simple control measures for businesses who manage large commercial bins and storage areas, and those who collect the waste, are set out in HSE's guidance on our website.
The guidance includes:
- increased risk factors, such as unsafe storage areas and bins being too accessible
- duties of waste producers and/or businesses managing bin storage areas
- what waste collectors need to do
- what you should do if people are found in bins
Read our guidance on preventing people getting into large waste and recycling bins.
Our news article also has more information on these risks: A matter of life and death: why businesses must check their bins.
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